Acclaimed Jewish author Maggie Anton will be the guest speaker at Sisterhood’s Spring Brunch this year. While most of Maggie’s writings are fictional, the focus of her talk will be her new non-fiction book, Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say About You-Know-What, a look at our Sages’s views on sexuality. She will also talk about how she came to be a Talmud scholar and how it has influenced her writings. Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of historical fiction trilogy Rashi’s Daughters and new series Rav Hisda’s Daughter. Her latest novel Enchantress focuses on the rabbis and sorceresses who populate the Talmud and the surprising importance of Jewish magic in 4th-century Babylonia. The first volume, Apprentice, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. The lighthearted Fifty Shades of Talmud is an in-depth tour of sexuality within the Talmud, in which readers can eavesdrop at the first rabbis’ locker-room door as they discuss every aspect of sexual relations: how, when, where, with whom, and how often in startlingly explicit fashion. Maggie reveals how Jewish tradition is more progressive in many respects, and more bawdy, than one might think. A Los Angeles native, Maggie worked for 33 years as a clinical chemist for Kaiser Permanente before becoming an author. The fee for this event is $10 for Sisterhood members, $15 for OT members who do not belong to Sisterhood, and $18 for non-OT members.
